JPH05116852A - Special guest service operating device of elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Object] The present invention aims to improve the service to special customers by reducing the frequency of special customers waiting for an elevator for a long time. [Structure] When the elevator machine selected for special customers is kept waiting for a long time due to some reason such as service of general customers, it is special to other elevator machines that are close to the above elevator machine and have a short response time. Relieve the annoyance of special customers by providing customer-only services.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an elevator special customer service operating device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a special customer arrives, there is a service in which a specific elevator car arrives at a hall by a special customer service button installed at the reception of a building or the like, and is operated exclusively for the special customer. This special passenger elevator is
It is common to use fixed units that are closer to the location than the reception so that special customers are not moved as much as possible.

Further, since this special customer-only operation is performed only at an extremely low frequency, it is usually used as an elevator for general customers. When the special customer uses it, the fixed elevator machine is operated as a special customer-only operation. Often, a switching method is used. Therefore, the switching to the special customer only operation is performed after waiting for the service of the general customer.

[0004]

When special passenger dedicated driving is required, the special customer dedicated unit is traveling on a floor far from the hall with special customers, or a large number of ordinary passengers board the car. In a situation where many basket call buttons are pressed and it takes a considerable amount of time to finish the service for general customers, there is a problem that a special customer is annoyed for waiting for a long time.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and when the elevator machine selected for a special customer is kept waiting for a long time for some reason such as service of a general customer. , An object of the present invention is to provide an elevator special customer service operating device that can alleviate the annoyance of special customers by allowing other elevators that are installed close to the above elevators and have a short response time to provide special customer exclusive services. To do.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a group supervisory control device for selecting an optimal elevator from a plurality of elevators and responding to a hall call. A hall call input means, means for calculating a predicted waiting time until each elevator responds to the hall call, and an elevator machine that responds to the hall call for special passengers based on the output result of the calculating means are installed. It is characterized in that it comprises means for selecting from within the elevator machine predetermined according to the specified position condition and means for informing the elevator machine that responds.

[0007]

In the elevator special passenger service operating device of the present invention, arrival of a special passenger is detected by the special passenger hall call input means, and based on the car position information and car call status information of each elevator at that time. , Calculate the estimated time to respond to a hall call with a special passenger, and based on the calculation result, when the time required for the designated number of units to respond does not satisfy the specified conditions, Select another machine whose installation position is close to the machine and satisfy the response time, and make a response instead.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.
This is an example of a case where a plurality of elevators whose operations are controlled by group management control move up and down a building for servicing.

The entire control of each elevator is performed by the group management control device, and which elevator is to respond to a hall call generated on an arbitrary floor is judged from the result of the arrival prediction calculation of each elevator, and the optimum elevator is selected. Allocates to the hall call, and each unit is equipped with a single control unit,
It responds to your car calls and controls the traveling such as acceleration, deceleration, and landing when you arrive at the destination floor.For this group management control, various methods have been proposed in the past. Therefore, any of them can be used.

The feature of this embodiment is that, when a hall call for special passengers occurs, the first candidate elevator No. 1 for exclusive use for special passengers, which is predetermined by the conditions such as the installation position, arrives at the hall call registration floor. Estimate the expected arrival time expected to be reached, and when it is determined that it will take a long time, similarly evaluate the arrival time for the second and third candidate elevators and determine the special passenger dedicated operation number It is in.

The special passenger service operating device of the present embodiment has, as its constituent elements, special passenger hall call buttons 41, 42, 43 installed near the hall where special passengers get on and off, and near the hall buttons. Special Customer Report Light 2
1, 22, 23 are provided.

[0012] In addition, special passenger hall call buttons 41, 4
The input control unit 31 that inputs the hall call signal when any of the numbers 2 and 43 is pressed, and the car position information of each car, the car call status information, and other floors for the registered hall call. The data storage unit 32 stores, as a table, hall call state information that may have occurred.

Further, based on the data in the data storage unit 32, in response to the special passenger hall call signal from the input control unit 31, each car responds to the general hall call and the car call, and then the special passenger A waiting time calculation unit 33 that calculates and outputs an estimated arrival time until answering a hall call, and an allocation control unit 34 that determines a special customer-dedicated driving elevator machine based on the predicted waiting time obtained by the waiting time calculation unit 33. And an indicator light control unit 35 for informing the special passenger-dedicated driving elevator number determined by the allocation control unit 34.

The present invention does not fix the special customer-only operation number,
The allocation control unit 34 is characterized in that the number of units satisfying the predicted waiting time is selected from among a number of candidate units adapted as special customer-only operating units depending on the installation position conditions.
The operation of is particularly detailed.

This embodiment is a group control elevator consisting of eight elevator machines shown in FIG. Depending on the locational conditions, the number of candidate vehicles for exclusive use by special customers is predetermined to be three, that is, the first candidate is the first vehicle, the second candidate is the fifth vehicle, and the third candidate is the second vehicle. This candidate vehicle for exclusive use for special customers is stored in a readable memory such as a ROM as shown in FIG.

The first candidate machine number "01" is stored in the address a, and the second candidate machine number "05" is stored in the address a + 1.
Is stored, and the machine number of the third candidate is “0” at a + 2.
2 ”is stored. In this embodiment, since the fourth candidate machine is not designated, “FF” meaning “not applicable” is stored in the address a + 3. FIG. 2 shows the allocation control unit 34.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a processing routine for determining a special customer dedicated elevator machine. Special passenger hall call buttons 41-
When any of 43 is pressed, the floor on which the button was pressed,
The processing routine of FIG. 2 is started with the call direction as an argument. In this processing routine, first from the address a in FIG.
The candidate machine number is read and stored in the variable i (step S1). Next, the waiting time calculation unit 33 calculates a predicted waiting time until Unit i responds to the floor on which the special passenger hall call buttons 41 to 43 are pressed (step S2).

It is judged whether or not this predicted waiting time satisfies the condition of 30 seconds or less (step S3), and if the condition is satisfied, the machine indicated by i is determined as a special passenger-dedicated machine, and the elevator machine is called a special passenger hall. A command is issued to respond to (step S7).

On the other hand, if the condition is not satisfied in step S3, the next candidate machine number is read from the memory shown in FIG. 4 and it is determined whether there is a candidate machine (whether the read data is not "FF") (step S3). S4), if there is a candidate number, the number of the number is stored in the variable i (step S5), the process returns to step S2, the predicted waiting time is similarly determined, and the elevator number which satisfies the condition is selected.

In some rare cases, none of the candidate units satisfy the waiting time condition of step S3 depending on the usage condition of the elevator, but in this embodiment, the positional condition is the first priority, and the first candidate unit is the special customer. Assigned to a dedicated machine.

The time value (30 seconds in this embodiment) used for the evaluation of the waiting time in step S3 is determined in accordance with the number of floors in the building, the rated speed of the elevator, etc., and stored in the ROM or the like. It is a variable value that is stored.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, some candidates for exclusive use of special customers are selected in consideration of the installation position condition of the elevator car, and a response is made from the candidates to the hall where the special customers are. Under the condition that the estimated waiting time until is less than a certain time, we decided to decide the elevator to be assigned to the service of the special customer, so it is not necessary to move the special customer around. In addition to the advantages of the method, it is possible to reduce the annoyance caused by waiting for a longer time. Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 5, the same components as those in FIG. 1 are designated by the same reference numerals and the description thereof will be omitted. In FIG. 5, the allocation control unit 34 determines the allocation machine based on the calculation of the waiting time calculation unit 33 described above, and outputs the allocation signal of the machine allocated by the allocation control unit 34 to the lantern control unit 36, The lantern control section 36 is provided for each car at each hall and displays the VIP car allocation on the hall lantern 37 that displays the car allocation and arrival of the car. Here, the above-mentioned display of the allocation and arrival of the car by the hall lantern 37 means that the car lantern 37 is turned on for the car assigned to the normal hall call and the car lantern is decelerated immediately before the car arrives. Although 37 is displayed by blinking, here, in the case of the VIP number allocation display, the blinking cycle is changed or the display color is changed.

In this way, the elevator can display the display pattern by the hall lantern 37 provided in the hall.
By changing it when responding to the hall as a driving machine, the special customer can use the elevator without confusion, and since the special customer machine warning light 23 is not installed, it can be constructed at low cost. become.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the elevator machine selected for special customers is kept waiting for a long time for some reason such as service of general customers, the elevator machine and the installation position are close to each other. It is possible to provide a special customer service operation device for an elevator that can alleviate the irritability of a special customer by making another elevator unit having a short time provide a special customer service.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an elevator special customer service operating device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the special customer service operating device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an installed state of an elevator machine in an elevator hall.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a storage state of elevator number which is a candidate for special customer dedicated operation in the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an elevator special customer service operating device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 21,22,23 ... Special customer number indicator light 31 ... Input control unit 32 ... Data storage unit 33 ... Waiting time calculation unit 34 ... Allocation control unit 35 ... Indicator light control unit 36 ... Lantern control unit 37 ... Hall lantern 41, 42, 43 ... Hall call button for special passengers

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a group management control device for selecting an optimal elevator from a plurality of elevators in response to a hall call and responding to the hall call, a hall call input means for special passengers and said hall hall call for special passengers. And a means for calculating a predicted waiting time before responding to, and an elevator machine predetermined based on a position condition in which an elevator machine responding to the special passenger landing call is installed based on an output result of the calculating means. An elevator special customer service operation device comprising means for selecting from among the above and means for notifying the responding elevator car.